[Introducing] – Brett Shady

A few days ago on Twitter I mentioned that when I come across that one gem in my inbox, it makes it all worthwhile when you’ve spent an hour wading through all of the submissions that are either tedious or terrible.

Well that one gem I was talking about was Brett Shady, a dude from Burbank, California who just released his self-released debut album “The Devil To Pay” on August 10th.  The song that got me hooked and swaying from side to side like an impatient drunk was “Angels, Ghosts And Demons”, an upbeat barnstormer with a ubiquitous and infectious chorus that has about 182 people yelling and all stomping their feet. The verses are similar to Glasvegas’ “Daddy’s Gone” but he makes it all entirely his own with the last minute of the song trailing off into an ethereal tunnel of harmonics.

Songs like “God, Change The Laws Of The World” and “Somebody Else” will get you lost in his voice and his lyrics as he wails over the top of his guitar and banjo, making people who don’t like even a hint of country music get right the fuck into it.  You can hear three songs from his debut album below and on his MySpace page he has a couple of others.

He’ll be starting a three-week U.S. tour with Golden Shoulders starting on September 1st and you can see the dates on either his MySpace or Last.fm pages below.

Keep up to date with Brett Shady – MySpace | Last.fm

Brett Shady – “Somebody Else”
Brett Shady – “God, Change The Laws Of The World”
Brett Shady – “Angels, Ghosts And Demons”